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Full Name :

Saurav Chandidas Ganguly

 
Birthday :

July 8, 1972

Birth Place :

Calcutta

 
Country :

India

 
Batting :

Left hand batsman

 
Bowling :

Right arm medium pace bowler

 
ODI Debut :

vs. West Indies, at Brisbane on 11/1/92

 
Test Dedut : India v England at Lord’s, 2nd Test, 1996

Profile:    Saurav Ganguly, the Prince of Calcutta has a fan following of millions and that is justified considering the number of winning knocks he has played for India. His batting is the perfect blend of elegance and power. He has all the traditional style that goes with left handed batsmanship. He is also a superb/ perfect timer of the ball. The manner in which he steps out and pounces on the ball, like a tiger on a hapless prey, is something to be enjoyed on the spot. He is one of the most aggressive Captain India has ever had and has emerged as one of the key components of the Indian team. His ability to play shots on the off side is special because there are very few players who can hit the ball in that area as crisply as he does. He is an aggressive left-handed batsman and is also an effective (right-handed) medium pace bowler. He started his international career as a 19 year old during the tour to Australia in 1991-92 where both his ability and attitude was questioned. His recall for the 1996 tour to England was severely criticised as one of the evils of India’s “quota” system. But he answered that in style by not only scoring centuries in his first two Test innings but also capturing vital wickets to bag the Man of the series award. Still he was considered fit only for the Test matches because of his inability to play onside strokes. He worked on that problem and became a household name in India after the Sahara Cup in Toronto where he won several matches for India against Pakistan. Besides several superlative batting performance (including 75* in 75 balls), he exploited the conditions to return some excellent bowling figures (including 5-16). He is often criticised for his running between the wickets and if he works on that, the way he has worked on his leg-side then he will definitely become a formidable force in the World of Cricket.

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Full Name:      Adam Gilchrist

 Date of Birth:  14 November 1971

 Birth Place:    Bellingen, New South Wales -  Australia  Test Cap No:  381  Major Cricket Teams: Australia - Western Australia - New South Wales  Playing Role: Wicketkeeper batsman

  Batting Style: Left-hand bat  Bowling Style:  Right-arm offbreak  Height: 1.85 m

 Test Debut:Australia v Pakistan at Brisbane - 1st Test, 1999-2000 

ODI Debut:Australia v South Africa at Faridabad - Titan Cup, 1996-1997

Profile:    Adam Gilchrist is one of Australia’s most exciting young players. Originally from New South Wales, he made his Sheffield Shield debut as a specialist batsman in 1992-93 but relocated within two summers when it became obvious that his desire to become a first-class wicketkeeper would not be realised in his home State. Starved of opportunities (and frustrated by his inability to convince the New South Wales’ selection panel that he was a superior wicketkeeper to the incumbent, Phil Emery), he accordingly moved to Western Australia, where he quickly displaced another highly regarded former international player in Tim Zoehrer. Since that time, he has deservedly acquired a name for himself as an enterprising player who can always be relied upon to make a valuable contribution to his team’s fortunes. Behind the stumps, he is reliable, enthusiastic and athletic, although it should be said that he generally appears more comfortable keeping to faster bowlers than to spinners. As a batsman, his penchant for playing attacking shots and for punishing loose bowling also makes him a particularly enjoyable player to watch. While his most devastating shot is the cut, he possesses a wide variety of strokes and his penchant for powering the ball square of the wicket is accompanied by an equally adroit capacity to drive the ball fluently through the arc between mid-off and mid-on. Although his elevation to national honours was not without controversy (as it was made at the expense of the ever-popular Ian Healy), such has been the extent of Gilchrist’s progress since moving to Western Australia that he has become a fixture in Australia’s one-day international side - as both a ‘keeper and dashing opening batsman - over recent seasons. Indeed, one needs to look no further than the three brilliant ODI centuries that he has already scored during 1998 (a measured 100 against South Africa in Sydney in January, a blazing 118 off 117 balls against New Zealand at Lancaster Park in February, and a superb 103 which saw him anchor Australia’s successful pursuit of a mammoth total of 8/315 set by Pakistan in Lahore in November) to understand that he is an excellent player whose stature in the game will surely only grow when he is afforded his rightful chance to succeed Healy as Australia’s Test gloveman.

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Name: Ajit Bhalchandra Agarkar Born: 4 December 1977, Bombay (now Mumbai)
            Major Teams: Mumbai, India.  
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat

Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Test Debut: India v Zimbabwe at Harare, Only Test, 1998/99 
ODI Debut: India v Australia at Kochi, Pepsi Triangular Series, 1997/98

Profile:

 He came up through the India A ranks and suddenly burst upon the scene in the late 90s as one of the most talented young all rounders in Indian cricket. A nippy medium pacer, capable of moving the ball both ways and a more than useful late order attacking batsman, Ajit Agarkar was hailed as the best thing to happen to Indian cricket for a long time. Great things were expected from this Shivaji Park product in Mumbai and Agarkar indicated that he would live upto early promise by racing to 50 wickets in one day internationals faster than anyone else - breaking the record held by none other than Dennis Lillee.  However, his subsequent record - both in Tests and ODI’s - were a grave disappointment. Plagued by injuries, Agarkar was always struggling to hold his place in the side. He had a poor World Cup tournament and on his return sought advice from Lillee at the MRF Pace Foundation. Nothing seemed to help however and after a nightmarish tour of Australia, his place in the national side came under severe scrutiny. After all, it could not have been easy to come back from five successive ducks in Test cricket - four of them off the first ball faced. But Agarkar is as determined as he is talented and during the year 2000 he proved that he was far from washed up - particularly in the one day game. Towards the end of an eventful year for him, Agarkar hit the fastest half century - off only 21 balls - to surpass a famous record held by Kapil Dev, who reached the mark off 22 balls in 1983. At the start of the new millennium, Agarkar seems to have cemented his place in the side as a fiercely competitive, dependable - and sometimes even exciting - cricketer.

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Full name :     Danish Parabha Shanker Kaneria
Born :             December 16, 1980, Karachi, Sind
Major teams : Pakistan, Essex, Habib Bank Limited, Karachi, Pakistan                         National Shipping Corporation, Pakistan Reserves
Also known as : Nani-Danny
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Legbreak

 Profile:

A tall, wiry legspinner, and only the second Hindu to play Test cricket for Pakistan (the first, his cousin Anil Dalpat, was briefly their wicketkeeper), Danish Kaneria mastered some vital skills at an early age. His stock ball drifts into the batsman and he has a googly as cloaked as any in recent history.. His whirling approach is reminiscent of Abdul Qadir, and he has now picked up the baton from Mushtaq Ahmed as Pakistan’s premier legspinner. Kaneria was hyped as a secret weapon when England toured Pakistan in 2000-01, and though his impact in the Test series was minimal, he has since made his mark. Initially he did so against the lesser lights of Bangladesh, but also in a home Test against South Africa, when his five-for won Pakistan the match. Since then, he has confirmed himself as a bona fide matchwinner, leading Pakistan to wins against Sri Lanka in Karachi in 2004 and against the West Indies in Jamaica in 2005. In between, two tours - to Australia and the graveyard of legspin, India - became arduous but satisfying stepping stones to the big league. In each series he outscalped the leading legspinners of our age, first Shane Warne, then Anil Kumble and although Pakistan lost the first series comprehensively, Kaneria’s 19 wickets were crucial in securing a morale-boosting 1-1 draw in India. He ended 2005 with two further, last-day matchwinning turns against England at home.

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Name :     Symonds Andrew

Born  :       June 9, 1975

                  Right – hand bat

                   Test cap number:  388

                   One- day cap number: 139

Profile:

Built his reputation as a Boxing Day Test specialist with 156, his maiden Test century, at the MCG against England last December, and leapt into the arms of his great Queensland mate Matthew Hayden to celebrate. A year earlier, he signalled his arrival as a Test all-rounder in the corresponding match when he blasted 72 from 54 balls against South Africa and captured three crucial wickets with his medium-pacers. Spent some time in the Test wilderness between those games, losing his place when the selectors opted for five specialist bowlers against Bangladesh. Was recalled to the Test team last December after the retirement of Damien Martyn. Made his Test debut against Sri Lanka in Galle in March 2004, but played only the first two Tests. Regained his place for the Test series against West Indies and South Africa in 2005-06. Ripped a biceps tendon off the bone while batting during the Commonwealth Bank Series last season, and had surgery to re-attach it. Without him, Australia suffered its worst losing streak in a decade, dropping five games in succession immediately before the World Cup. Returned in the preliminary stage of the tournament, and was part of Australia’s 2007 triumph four years after his stunning breakthrough as a one-day batsman at the 2003 World Cup. There, he scored 326 runs at a strike rate of 90.55, starting with his memorable 143 not out against Pakistan. Was suspended for two matches during the One-day International leg of the 2005 tour of England after he was found to have stayed out late ahead of a game against Bangladesh in Cardiff. In his absence, Australia lost the match, its first ever defeat to Bangladesh. When he returned he made 229 runs at an average of 57.25 and took six wickets, including a career-best 5-18 against Bangladesh in Manchester. Holds the record for the most sixes in a first-class innings and match (16 and 20 respectively), for Gloucestershire against Glamorgan at Abergavenny in 1995, scoring 254 not out and 76. Also regarded as one of the world’s best fielders. Born in Birmingham, he turned down a chance to play for England A in 1995-96 in order to remain available for Australian selection.

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Full name
Shane Keith Warne

Born
September 13, 1969, Ferntree Gully, Victoria

Major teams
Australia, Hampshire, ICC World XI, Victoria

Nickname
Warney

Playing role
Bowler

Batting style
Right-hand bat

Test debut :Australia v India at Sydney - Jan 2-6, 1992

Last Test :Australia v England at Melbourne - Dec 26-28, 2006

First-class span :1990/91 - 2006/07

List A span :1991/92 – 2006

Twenty20 span :2004 – 2005

Shane Warne profile:
At first there were nerves and chubbiness. Then came wild soaring legbreaks, followed by fame and flippers. For a long while there were women, then a bookmaker, then diet pills, then more women - and headlines, always headlines. Now he has come out the other end, his bluff and bluster and mischief and innocence somehow intact. The man who in 2000 was rated among the five greatest cricketers of the 20th century was, in 2005, bowling better than ever. When Warne likened his life to a soap opera he was selling himself short. His story is part fairytale, part pantomime, part hospital drama, part adult’s-only romp, part glittering awards ceremony. He has taken a Test hat-trick, won the Man-of-the-Match prize in a World Cup final and been the subject of seven books. He was the first cricketer to reach 650 Test wickets. He has swatted more runs than any other Test player without making a hundred, and is probably the wiliest captain Australia never had. His ball that gazoodled Mike Gatting in 1993, bouncing outside leg stump and cuffing off, is unanimously esteemed the most famous in history. He revived legspin, thought to be extinct, and is now pre-eminent in a game so transformed that we sometimes wonder where the next champion fast bowlers will come from. For all that, Warne’s greatest feats are perhaps those of the last couple of years. Returning from a 12-month hiatus for swallowing forbidden diuretics, he swept aside 26 Sri Lankan batsmen in three Tests, and the following year scalped a world record 96 victims - a stunning 24 more than in his show-stopping 1993 - and still missed out on the Allan Border Medal. Forty of those were Englishmen in what sometimes appeared to be a lone stand in a thrilling Ashes series. Nowadays he is helped by his stockpile of straight balls: a zooter, slider, toppie and back-spinner, one that drifts in, one that slopes out, and another that doesn’t budge. Yet he seldom gets his wrong’un right and rarely lands his flipper. More than ever he relies on his two oldest friends: excruciating accuracy and an exquisite legbreak. Except that he now controls the degree of spin - and mixes it - at will. Like the great classical painters, he has stumbled upon the art of simplicity. His bowling has never been simpler, nor more effective, nor lovelier to look at.
Maybe, as with Posh Spice or Kylie Minogue, Warne is more famous than he is loved. Maybe we don’t fully appreciate his genius; maybe, like Bradman’s, it will become ever more apparent with the passing of decades. One thing’s for sure, though. We’ll weep when he’s gone.

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Full Name
Anil Radhakrishna Kumble
BirthdayOct 17, 1970

Birth Place
Bangalore
Country
India
Batting
Right hand batsman
Bowling
Right arm leg-break googly bowler
Teams
India, Northamptonshire, ACC Asian XI, Karnataka, Leicestershire
Test Debut
Against England at Old Trafford on 09-08-1990
ODI Debut
Against Sri Lanka at Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium on 25-04-1990 

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